M0003802: Euresis, goddess of invention, presenting Mandragora (Mandrake) to Dioscorides

Previous title, replaced May 2020: The Goddess Discovery presenting Mandragora to Dioscorides

Photograph of a print publication illustration titled "The Goddess Discovery presenting Mandragora to Dioscorides." This drawing comes from the 6th century illustrated manuscript Dioscorides of Vienna, that is part of Dioscorides' work "De materia medica." The Mandragora plant (Mandrake) was used as an anaesthetic in Roman and medieval times.

24 March 1934

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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